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The Temple Menorah: The seven-branched gold candelabra in the Temple.
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The Shape of the Branches of the Menorah The menorah is very frequently employed as a Jewish symbol. Nevertheless, the authenticity of the design with which the menorah is usually depicted is a matter of question. For there are several inconsistencies be...
Rosh Chodesh Elul, 5742 · August 19, 1982
Many manuscripts of Maimonides’ Commentary to the Mishna show an illustration of the Holy Menorah in which each decorative goblet on the Menorah’s branches face upward. But Maimonides’ own handwritten sketch of the Menorah shows the exact opposite: They f...
The windows in the Temple were designed to be narrow on the inside and wide on the outside, representing the fact that its purpose is to shine outward and share the light with the rest of the world. The goblets in the Temple Menorah also symbolize this id...
A New Interpretation of a Classic Talmudic Question
A Question Left Unresolved By Our Sages In his description of the menorah, the Rambam states: Hilchos Beis HaBechirah 3:1-2. The central shaft of the menorah had four goblets, four bulbs, and two flowers.... A third flower was located near the base of th...
Rashi, in discussing the Torah portion of Tzav, quotes the words:Vayikra 6:6. “A constant fire shall burn upon the altar; it shall not be extinguished,” and explains that “the fire about which the verse states ‘constant’ (i.e., the fire upon the outer alt...
Excerpt from a letter by the Rebbe to a graduating yeshiva class.
The Torah calls the Jewish people “a kingdom of priests.” Here is what it means to you…
Paris 1938
The deeper meaning behind the different opinions in the Talmud and commentaries regarding the menorah’s spatial alignment inside the Temple, and regarding the identity of its miraculous “western lamp.”
By law, the menorah stood in a chamber into which only kohanim (priests) were permitted entry. But the law also states that an ordinary person may light the menorah. What is the point—and lesson—of this legal paradox?
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